Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following selections are from Voices from the Plain of Jars. Life under an Air War,a collection of first hand accounts by Laotian peasants of American bombing raids near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The book has been compiled by an American journalist. Fred Branfman and was published last year by Harper and Row. Perhaps it can help us to hear the American bombers overhead...
...Mammoth Mountain v. Mono County. The issue was whether the "spirit" of California's Environmental Quality Act of 1970, which requires state agencies to publish detailed reports on the environmental "impact" of their projects, also applied to private developers. The court, which has often acted as a trail blazer for other states, answered unequivocally: "To limit the operation of the E.Q.A. solely to what are essentially public works projects would frustrate the effectiveness of the act." Then the judges went on to excoriate "those who are oblivious to the ecological well-being of society." In other words, the slipshod...
Nonskiers cannot comprehend why otherwise rational people rise at dawn in order to buy a $10 ticket for the privilege of shivering in a slow-moving lift line to ascend slowly a hill that they will quickly slide down. Or to careen down a narrow, bumpy trail in a blinding snowstorm, watching for the hidden icy spot that could send them crashing into a tree trunk. The explanation is simple. Skiing is a feast for all the senses. It promises exhilaration, fresh air and muscle-taxing exercise; an hour of downhill skiing can burn up as many as 500 calories...
...ammunition, rather than the usual 200. After hurried training-eight weeks instead of the usual six months-he was marched south and told that he was going to fight in a "great war." Last April his unit crossed into Laos on Route 559-the Ho Chi Minh trail-and moved down the trail from one numbered station to another for nearly three months. Strangely enough, they never encountered any U.S. bombers, but they did come across a unit from Haiphong that had lost about half of its 600 men in an air attack...
...trail, Dai was issued rice and dried salted meat daily, plus two pounds of sugar and a pint of milk every 45 days. The officers were regularly issued ginseng root, the ancient Oriental aphrodisiac and cureall. On occasion, the troops would sell their clothing to buy chickens or a suckling...